. Journal of electricity. e ground part Qf ApriL (Salt Lake City exchange now has about 23,000 instruments inuse.) The central consisted of a small room about8 by 10, partitioned off the Western Union Telegraphoffice, and the equipment consisted of two 50 wireGilliland switchboards. During the spring of 1881, he was loaned by thetelephone company to the Salt Lake City Light &Heating Company, for the purpose of putting in -thefirst circuits for the first lighting plant in Utah, whichconsisted of four Brush arc machines of 40 light each. In the spring of 1887, he branched out for himselfand open
. Journal of electricity. e ground part Qf ApriL (Salt Lake City exchange now has about 23,000 instruments inuse.) The central consisted of a small room about8 by 10, partitioned off the Western Union Telegraphoffice, and the equipment consisted of two 50 wireGilliland switchboards. During the spring of 1881, he was loaned by thetelephone company to the Salt Lake City Light &Heating Company, for the purpose of putting in -thefirst circuits for the first lighting plant in Utah, whichconsisted of four Brush arc machines of 40 light each. In the spring of 1887, he branched out for himselfand opened the first electric shop between Denver andSan Francisco, and has conducted an electrical con-tracting business ever since. The population of Salt Lake City in 1870 wasabout 20,000; today it is estimated at over 140,000. This city enjoys the distinction of being the largestconsumer of electricity in the world, according to pop-ulation, there being 99% connected with the servicesof the Utah Power & Light by W. H. Brommage in a recent number of the PacificTelephone Magazine. A telegraph operator at San Francisco telephonedthe superintendent of supplies that she had a telegramand gave it just as it appears here: Need at once for estimate number fifteen sixty eightfifty two piece transposition brackets. Have applied all avail-able this division none on hand—division please have ex-pressed to care of Western Electric Company use requi-sition if needed advise. This is how the stenographer interpreted the mes-sage, and after reading it back to the telegraph oper-ator, received the O. K.: Need at once for estimate No. 1560—850 2 piece trans-position brackets. Have applied all available this division. None on hand division. Please have expressed to care of Western Electric Company. Use requisition if needed. Advise. This interpretation seemed to be very clear exceptthat the quantity of brackets seemed unusually , as an express shipment was desired, every-thi
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